Scope

• The Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee (OPGT) requires a Senior Software Developer to help build a new data warehouse/lakehouse and deliver the reporting MVP (minimum viable product).
  

Assignment Deliverables

As a member of the data team, you will be responsible to help define the MVP for reporting, build the new data warehouse/lakehouse and deliver the required reporting. A high-level list of deliverables for the data migration team follows:

• Data Warehouse Design: analyze business requirements and design an efficient data warehouse/lakehouse/golden layer on Microsoft Azure
  
• Data Integration and ETL: help develop and automate ETL processes to load data from Dynamics 365 CE and F&O into the new data warehouse/lakehouse (bronze/silver/golden layers). Help integrate data from diverse sources into the new data warehouse.
  
• Data Modeling: create logical and physical data models that align with the project's reporting and analytical needs.
  
• Data Security and Governance: implement appropriate security controls to protect sensitive data within the data warehouse.
  
• Reporting and Visualization: develop reports, dashboards and visualizations as per reporting MVP. Ensure the quality, accuracy and integrity of reports.
  
• Performance Optimization: fine-tune the data warehouse and reporting processes to optimize query performance and overall system efficiency.
  
• Other duties as assigned.
  

The Vendor's Personnel will also be required to:

• Complete work and achieve milestones within the assigned deadlines.
  
• Notify the Cluster/Ministry project Manager in writing of any issues or other material concerns related to the Assignment Deliverables, as soon as he/she becomes aware of them
  
• Submit Deliverables for the Cluster/Ministry approval as they are completed.
  
• Comply with the Ontario Government and the Cluster/Ministry security procedures and practices
  
• Comply with the Ontario Government and the Cluster/Ministry architecture/technology standards and best practices
  
• Comply with the Ontario Government and the Cluster/Ministry Conflict of Interest and Confidentiality Guidelines
  
• Provide knowledge and skill transfer to a designated Cluster/Ministry staff; and
  
• Comply with the Ontario Government I&IT Directive, Operational Policy on the I&IT Project Gateway Process, and other applicable Guidelines, Standards and Procedures.
  

Experience and Skillset Requirements

Mandatory Requirements

• Power BI: Proficiency in Power BI, including data modeling, creating interactive reports and dashboards and utilizing advanced features.
  
• Demonstrated experience with data analytics and reporting from Dynamics 365 CE and/or F&O.
  
• Data Warehouse/Lakehouse Concepts: Strong understanding of data warehousing principles, including data modeling, ETL processes, data integration, and data governance.
  

Nice to Have Requirements

• Azure cloud certifications (e.g. Azure fundamentals, Azure Power BI Data Analyst Associate)
  
• Experience with PowerApps platform, Power Automate, Dynamics CE and F&O
  

Desired Skills and Experience

• Data Warehouse/Lakehouse Concepts: Strong understanding of data warehousing principles, including data modeling, ETL processes, data integration, and data governance.
  
• Power BI: Proficiency in Power BI, including data modeling, creating interactive reports and dashboards, configuring data gateways, and utilizing advanced features such as DAX and Power Query.
  
• Knowledge of technologies commonly used with Dynamics 365, such as DataVerse / Common Data Service (CDS), Data Entities, and APIs.
  
• SQL and Query Optimization: Strong SQL skills for writing complex queries, optimizing database performance, and troubleshooting query performance issues. Understanding of indexing, partitioning, and query execution plans.
  
• Data Modeling and Design: Proficiency in designing logical and physical data models, understanding relationships, defining hierarchies, and ensuring efficient data storage and retrieval.
  
• Data Visualization: Ability to create visually appealing and informative reports and dashboards using Power BI, understanding best practices for data visualization, and storytelling with data.
  
• Data Security and Governance: Knowledge of data security principles, data governance practices, data quality management, and data lifecycle management.
  
• Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills: Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities to identify business requirements, analyze data, and provide meaningful insights to stakeholders.
  
• Communication and Collaboration: Effective communication skills to interact with stakeholders, gather requirements, and present findings. Collaboration skills to work with cross-functional teams, such as data engineers, data analysts, and business stakeholders.
  
• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Azure Repos) and collaboration tools (e.g., Azure DevOps) for managing code, tracking changes, and collaborating with team members.
  
• Experience with SQL Server Management Studio, Azure data management tools, data modeling tools
  
• Experience with SSIS, SSRS
  

Resumes Evaluation/Criteria:

Criteria 1: Data Warehouse - 25 Points

• Demonstrated experience developing reports in a Data Warehouse/ Lakehouse. Experience with supporting a data warehouse in a production environment
  
• Demonstrated experience working with Azure Synapse workspaces, including knowledge of pipeline creation, data flows, integration runtimes, triggers, and monitoring.
  
• Demonstrated experience with data warehousing modelling concepts such as star and snowflake schemas and data modelling tools.
  

Criteria 2: PowerBI - 25 Points

• Demonstrated experience working Power BI, creating interactive reports and dashboards, configuring data gateways, utilizing advanced features such as DAX and Power Query.
  

Criteria 3: SQL / DB - 20 Points

• Demonstrated experience with data manipulation languages (T-SQL, PL/SQL), data definition languages, query performance analysis & tuning
  
• Demonstrated experience with SQL Server, Oracle, Azure SQL Databases
  
• Experience with SSIS, SSRS
  

Criteria 4: Dynamics 365 - 20 Points

• Strong understanding of the Dynamics 365 data model, entities, and relationships.
  
• Experience developing reports from source data from Dynamics 365 CE or F&O.
  
• Familiarity with Dataverse and Power Platform application development.
  

Criteria 5: Azure Platform - 10 Points

• Experience with Azure Data Factory (ADF) and Synapse Workspaces
  
• Demonstrated experience Azure data management tools, DevOps,
  
• Azure cloud certifications
  

Knowledge Transfer

What needs to be KT

• Document the tasks executed and in process of execution as a member of the data migration team using the approach and tools required by the project manager.
  

To whom

• Project Manager / Team members
  

When

• 1:1 meetings / team meetings / documentation in DevOps Wiki and boards throughout the duration of the project life cycle.
  

Must haves:

• Power BI: Proficiency in Power BI, including data modeling, creating interactive reports and dashboards, and utilizing advanced features.
  
• Demonstrated experience with data analytics and reporting from Dynamics 365 CE and/or F&O.
  
• Data Warehouse/Lakehouse Concepts: Strong understanding of data warehousing principles, including data modeling, ETL processes, data integration, and data governance.
  

Nice To have:

• Azure cloud certifications (e.g. Azure fundamentals, Azure Power BI Data Analyst Associate)
  
• Experience with PowerApps platform, Power Automate, Dynamics CE and F&O